Walkley Awards 2023: Mid-Year Celebration winners

Winners weere announced last night in the 2023 Mid-Year Celebration of Journalism in Sydney.

Daryna Zadvirna a cross platform reporter from Western Australia, was named the 2023 John B Fairfax Family Young Australian Journalist of the Year.

In TV and related categories there were wins for ABC, SBS and Network 10.

Shortform journalism
Fleur Connick, Guardian Australia, “Rural water quality investigations”
Claudia Farhart, SBS, “2023 Türkiye-Syria Earthquakes”
Paul Sakkal, The Age, “Operation Daintree: Daniel Andrews under direct investigation in new IBAC probe”

Longform feature or special
Xanthe Gregory, ABC, “The Eugowra flood disaster”
Joey Watson, Guardian Australia, “Inside Australia’s secretive torture survival course for elite soldiers”
Daryna Zadvirna, The West Australian, “My Ukraine: Inside the Warzone”

Coverage of community and regional affairs
Xanthe Gregory, ABC 7.30 and ABC News, “The Eugowra flood disaster”
Melissa Mackay, ABC News, “Unjust Justice”
Hannah Walsh, ABC, “Parents receive apology from Mackay Base Hospital nine years after baby’s death”

Visual storytelling
Rhiona-Jade Armont, Dateline, SBS, “Now You See Me: The Search for Syria’s Missing”
Julian Fell, ABC News, “How the seeds of the 2022 election result were sown years ago”, “Wrenching the blackbox open”, and “What’s your personal rate of inflation”
Daryna Zadvirna, The West Australian, YouTube, “My Ukraine: Inside the Warzone”

Public service journalism
Brooke Fryer, SBS, “Vanished: The unsolved cases of First Nations women”
Lydia Lynch, The Australian, “Lydia Lynch”
Liam Mendes, The Australian, “Alice Springs”

June Andrews Award for Freelance Journalist of the Year
Patrick Abboud, Audible Podcasts, SBS Television / SBS OnDemand, The Project / Network 10, “Patrick Abboud”
Caroline Winter , Apple Podcasts, Sick As A Dog website, “Sick As A Dog: An industry in crisis”
Nina Funnell, news.com.au, “Justice Shouldn’t Hurt”

Our Watch Award
Alexis Daish, A Current Affair, Nine, “Kim’s Fight”
Melissa Fyfe and Jacqueline Maley, Good Weekend Magazine, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, “Rethinking Rape”
Richard Willingham, ABC Investigations, “Shortage of doctors causing victims of sexual crime to wait for forensic examinations”

Humanitarian Storytelling Award
Matthew Davis and Peter O’Donoghue, Foreign Correspondent, ABC, “Myanmar’s Forgotten War”
Tom Joyner, ABC News and ABC 7.30, “Somalia’s looming famine”
Ben Lewis, Colin Cosier and Josh McAtamney, Dateline, SBS, “Teens, Love and War”

Media Diversity Australia Award
Dan Bourchier, ABC, “Voice reporting by Dan Bourchier”
Hagar Cohen and Raveen Hunjan, ABC, “Racism allegations lead to staff exodus”
Jessica Horner and Nicole Mills, ABC, “A Rich News Lens”

June Andrews Award for Arts Journalism
Gabriella Coslovich, Good Weekend, “The Art of the Steal”
Marc Fennell, ABC TV, “Stuff the British Stole”
Anna Verney and Richard Cooke, Guardian Australia, “‘Miles Franklin-nominated novelist apologises for plagiarising Nobel laureate ‘without realising’’

Winners will also be announced for the Jacoby-Walkley Scholarship with Nine, the WIN News Broadcast Scholarship.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 Jacoby-Walkley Scholarship with Nine: Tatenda Chikwakukire, @QUT and Kevin Ding, @UNSW. #MidYearAwards. @Anita_Jacoby @Channel9 @9NewsAUS @AFTRS pic.twitter.com/o7wFJ7LQ6R

— Walkley Foundation (@walkleys) June 15, 2023